Bluffs Near Popes Creek (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Maryland (38.1° N, 77.0° W: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 61.2° W)

When: Nanjemoy Formation (Pamunkey Group), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• Woodstock and Potapaco Members

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. E. Weems and S. Horman. 1983. Teleost fish remains (Osteoglossidae, Blochiidae, Scombridae, Triodontidae, Diodontidae) from the Lower Eocene Nanjemoy Formation of Maryland. Proceedings of The Biological Society of Washington 96(1):38-49 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/O. Alfaro]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 124192: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margaret Shalap on 07.02.2012, edited by Patricia Holroyd

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Bothremydidae
Bothremydidae indet. sideneck turtle
 Testudines - Pantrionychidae
"Trionyx" pennatus Cope 1869 turtle
 Testudines - Dermochelyidae
cf. Eosphargis gigas Owen 1880 leatherback
 Testudines - Cheloniidae
Puppigerus camperi Gray 1831 sea turtle
 Testudines - Pancheloniidae
"Catapleura sp." = Euclastes
"Catapleura sp." = Euclastes Cope 1870 turtle
Actinopteri
 Osteoglossiformes - Osteoglossidae
Brychaetus muelleri Woodward 1901 arowana
 Tetraodontiformes -
Kyrtogymnodon sp. Tavani 1955
 Tetraodontiformes - Triodontidae
Triodon antiquus Leriche 1905
 Scombriformes - Scombridae
Cybium sp. Cuvier 1829
Sarda delheidi Leriche 1905
Osteichthyes
 Acipenseriformes -
Cylindracanthus rectus Agassiz 1843 ray-finned fish